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From wire reports • Thursday June 13, 2013 5:48 AM

Texas and Florida each executed a killer by injection
yesterday.

Elroy Chester, 43, was put to death at a Texas state prison,
and William Van Poyck, 58, at a prison in Florida, officials from both states said. They were the
14th and 15th executions in the U.S. this year.

Van Poyck was condemned for the murder of a prison guard during
a failed attempt to help an inmate escape.

Chester was executed after expressing regret to the family of
firefighter Willie Ryman. He had admitted killing five people and sexually assaulting three girls
during a spree in 1997 and 1998, officials said.